Researchers have discovered that online toxicity is not only consistently present regardless of platform but also does not necessarily cause people to disengage from discourse. Continue reading Don’t feed the Internet trolls! It’s easier said than done…
In recent years, generative AI tools have been incorporated in everything from search engines to email assistants – potentially opening the door to cyberattacks. Continue reading Generative AI is vulnerable to malware, researchers warn
A group of researchers from Shanghai built a customizable circuit that operates entirely with DNA, a groundbreaking step towards general-purpose DNA computing. Continue reading Scientists create a customizable circuit made from DNA
While social media “echo chambers” certainly exist, they may not have as large of an effect on political polarization as previously assumed. Continue reading Facebook and the echo chamber: scientists examine how social media affects political views
ChatGPT is transforming work, learning, and writing. A new AI tool can accurately distinguish human academic writing from ChatGPT with 99% accuracy. Continue reading New Tool Developed to Spot Artificial Intelligence in Academic Writing
Are you talking to a human or a chatbot? Ask them this question to find out. Continue reading Unmasking AI with a Single Question
In George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion phonetics professor Henry Higgins bets that he can teach Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, enough proper English to pass for a duchess. A little over 100 years after Pygmalion’s publication, Microsoft launched a Twitter bot named Tay with the goal of understanding how millennials communicate and in doing so created a bot that can pass for a millennial. Much … Continue reading How Tay “Machine Learned” Her Way to Become a Twitter Troll
Not content with stealing our jobs and beating our top Go players, artificial intelligence (AI) has now turned to cleaning out our bank accounts. DELIA (Deep Learning Interface for Accounting), developed by Stanford and Google, was created to allow distracted humans to shrug off some of the busy work of transferring money between bank accounts. Unfortunately for the clients of Sandhill Community Credit Union who … Continue reading Man < Machine Round 2: Money siphoning no longer restricted to sleazy Wall Street bankers